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Drum cover of I Can See For Miles by The Who.

My all-time favorite Who tune and the first covered from this group.

I Can See for Miles is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded for the band's 1967 album, The Who Sell Out. It was the only song from the album to be released as a single in October 1967. It's The Who's biggest hit single in the US, and their only one to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Not until I covered this song did I ever notice that the drums were tracked twice. The main track that can be heard in the song is louder than the other track. This other lower volume drum track can be heard on occasion on the right side channel.

For all you music majors, the key is a chromatic-minor.

Keith Moon was pretty much playing whatever he felt, being "Loony Moony", and so I tried to cop his fills as close as I could without getting hurt :D (Don't try this one at home kids without parental supervision!)

The song may have inspired The Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Paul McCartney recalls writing "Helter Skelter" after reading a review of The Who Sell Out in which the critic claimed that "I Can See for Miles" was the "heaviest" song he'd ever heard. McCartney had not heard the song, but wrote "Helter Skelter" in an attempt to make an even "heavier" song than the one praised in the review.

"I Can See for Miles" was rarely performed live by The Who during the Keith Moon era; the complex vocal harmonies were difficult to replicate on stage, AS WAS THE DRUMMING PATTERN FOUND ON THE ORIGINAL RECORDING. So all you hypercritical armchair drummers be aware that Keith if he were alive today couldn't play the tune exactly as he did for the recording.

Keith played a Premier kit and so I'm triggering a Premier kit from the ADpak-Jazz from Addictive Drums.